What Drives the International Transfer of Climate Change Mitigation Technologies? Empirical Evidence from Patent Data

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 161-178

  Dechezleprêtre, Antoine ^a   Glachant, Matthieu ^b   Ménière, Yann ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b CERNA   (France)

Author keywords

Climate change; Technology diffusion; Technology transfer

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; DIGITAL STORAGE; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; INVESTMENTS; PATENTS AND INVENTIONS; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION; CLIMATE FRIENDLY TECHNOLOGY; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENTS; INTERNATIONAL DIFFUSION; PATENT DATUM; SUBSTITUTION EFFECT; TECHNOLOGICAL CAPABILITY; TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA INTERPRETATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; GREENHOUSE GAS; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; MITIGATION; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

EID: 84872977704     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10640-012-9592-0     Document Type: Article

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